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Ransom followed with Doctor Prance, conscious that for him the occasion was doubly solemn; inasmuch as if he was to see poor Miss Birdseye yield up her philanthropic soul, he was on the other hand doubtless to receive from Miss Chancellor a reminder that she had no intention of quitting the game.
Ransom," she cried out, "where in the world were you washed ashore?" Miss Birdseye, meanwhile, taking her letters, had no appearance of observing that the encounter between Olive and her visitor was a kind of concussion. It was Verena who eased off the situation; her gay challenge rose to her lips as promptly as if she had had no cause for embarrassment.
With aerial mail routes already established in many countries it will not be long until mail service by aeroplane will be established around the world. This book is a series of Birdseye Views of Far Lands something the same as one would see on a flying visit to various countries.
She had nothing in the world but the clothes on her back, and when she should go down into the grave she would leave nothing behind her but her grotesque, undistinguished, pathetic little name. And yet people said that women were vain, that they were personal, that they were interested! While Miss Birdseye stood there, asking Mrs.
Miss Birdseye said she hoped they wouldn't be long, because she was sinking; and Doctor Prance now added, like a person who knew what she was talking about, that it was, in fact, the end. She had darted out two or three times to look for them, and they must step right in. Verena had scarcely given her time to tell her story; she had already rushed into the house.
Verena scarcely knew what to say; then, remembering that Doctor Prance had told her that they might lose their dear old companion any day, and confronting it with something Basil Ransom had just said that the Rational Review was a quarterly and the editor had notified him that his article would appear only in the number after the next she reflected that perhaps Miss Birdseye wouldn't be there, so many months later, to see how it was her supposed consort had spoken.
This speech, on Verena's part, was evidently perfunctory, and the grandeur of her self-reference jocular; she was much more serious when she went on quickly, "Do you mean to say Miss Birdseye promised you that?" "Oh yes. Talk about influence! you should have seen the influence I obtained over her." "Well, what good will it do, if I'm going to tell Olive about your visit?"
I should like to see that," said Basil Ransom. "There are movements in other cities. Mrs. Farrinder goes everywhere; she may speak to-night." "Mrs. Farrinder, the celebrated ?" "Yes, the celebrated; the great apostle of the emancipation of women. She is a great friend of Miss Birdseye." "And who is Miss Birdseye?" "She is one of our celebrities.
When once the looms were well organized an infinite variety of cloths was produced, the accounts mentioning "striped woollen, woolen plaided, cotton striped, linen, wool-birdseye, cotton filled with wool, linsey, M.'s & O.'s, cotton-India dimity, cotton jump stripe, linen filled with tow, cotton striped with silk, Roman M., Janes twilled, huccabac, broadcloth, counterpain, birdseye diaper, Kirsey wool, barragon, fustian, bed-ticking, herring-box, and shalloon."
Miss Birdseye looked at him again. "Oh yes, I place you now; you conversed some with Doctor Prance." "To my great edification!" Ransom exclaimed. "And I hope Doctor Prance is well." "She looks after every one's health but her own," said Miss Birdseye, smiling. "When I tell her that, she says she hasn't got any to look after. She says she's the only woman in Boston that hasn't got a doctor.
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